You are an experienced automated QA engineer who lives for new challenges and consistently delivers on your commitments. You thrive in a fast-paced environment and enjoy solving problems in unexplored territories. You get excited ripping things apart and figuring out how they work. You laugh in the face of poorly written furniture assembly instructions. You understand what “turn the middle side topwise” means.

This position is based in our home office, located in Chicago’s River North neighborhood.

We also offer a competitive compensation package.

Position Responsibilities

• Work along an agile development process to provide continuous feedback and ensure continuous quality
• Take part in the daily scrum and pay close attention to applying test automation where possible to solidify and make the process as accurate, quick and efficient as possible
• Create and maintain manual test cases based on dynamic requirements
• Create and maintain automated tests cases
• Perform testing sweeps
• Thoroughly research and communicate defects to developers and track their resolution
• Help establish and communicate processes as it relates to automated testing

Preferred Experience

• 2+ years professional software QA experience
• Previous experience testing mobile apps and websites
• Previous experience writing test plans both manual and automated
• Experience with Performance and Data testing
• Familiarity with agile scrum process and JIRA

Traits

• Motivated to take charge of your career
• Excellent communication, professional, organizational, and interpersonal skills
• Proficient in understanding written requirements, including use cases and supplementary specifications
• Interest in keeping up to date with new QA processes and tools
• Flexibility
• Curiosity
• Highly committed to the team’s success

 Technical Skills

• Technical writing
• Familiarity using Xcode, Android SDK, and web browser developer tools to access crash and error logs
• Automation tools; HP QTP/UFT, Selenium, Appium, Cypress
• Coding languages for writing automated tests; Javascript, Python, Ruby
• Familiar with using code repositories like BitBucket and incorporating automated tests in the CI process/tools

Bonus Technical Skills

• Security testing
• Accessibility testing
• API testing